Game Stop Wish List

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What is your holiday wish for your family?

I really wish to get so spend some quality time with extended family.

2. What is your Christmas morning / Hanukkah Nightly tradition?

We have muffins after opening our stockings.

3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be?

An embroidery machine! I have my fingers and toes crossed.

4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?

Quality time. We also have a collection of books that we read all related to Christmas.

5. What games did you play with your family growing up?

Mario Brothers on the Super Nintendo

6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood?

Egg Junk for breakfast and special ornaments every year.

7. Where would you go for a Christmas/Hanukkah-away-from-home trip?

To our parents house. We are stationed in SC and all of our family is in MO and AR.

8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year?

1. XBOX 360 with Kinect

2. Any of the Hasbro Game nights for the Wii

3. Seaseme Street: Elmos A to Zoo Adventure for the DS.

Today we honored our Papaw, Paul Penn Jr. by releasing balloons to heaven.


Paul Penn Jr
October 20, 1935 - November 2, 2010

Giveaways!

Tis the season! I have run accross an amazing giveaway that is happening at not only one blog but at a total of 5 blogs. The amazing people at HP have given 5 bloggers the chance to give away an HP TouchSmart 600 PC. To enter head on over to

You have 5 chances to win one of your own!

Check out each of the five reviews below to find out how great touch screen access to info, entertainment and social networks can be, and to enter each blogger's sweepstakes of a HP TouchSmart⁶⁰⁰ PC!

Kelly, from Kelly’s Korner, loves how her new HP TouchSmart 600 has great photo editing, slide show and movie applications. Find out what other features have her blown away!

See how the HP TouchSmart 600 has brought Stephanie, from A Year of Slow Cooking, and her family together. “I’m excited that my husband and the girls are so excited, spending so much time playing together, and fooling around with all of the programs.”

Jen, from My Charming Kids, just hasn't been able to keep her hands off it—after all, it is a TouchSmart! “I have died and gone to computer heaven, my friends…there is a program that helps me access Twitter, photo storage and organization solutions that make an obsessive organizational freak like me salivate.”

Check out how the HP TouchSmart 600 has become a family favorite for NieNie, from The NieNie Dialogues. Her children “love how easy it is to do Barbie's make-up with their fingers on the screen.”

Sophie, from BooMama, adores the Recipe Box feature that lets her “add any recipe I happen to run across on the web and will even READ THE RECIPE OUT LOUD TO ME while I cook.”

To read more about this amazing product head on over to BlogHer and read all about it!

Pony Rides make for a full day!

Princess getting her helmet on. I am not sure if she was more excited to ride or wear a helmet.

Princess on King Arthur. He was a wonderful pony.

From the conversations on the way home I have to say that she liked it.

Pumpkin Patch Part 2

Princess running in the feild of pumpkins.

Posing on a pumpkin

Frogee and his pumpkin. He is sitting now all by himself!

After the pumpkin patch we drove a little farther up the road to ride a pony for the first time. Even though it was nap time I could not miss out on this opportunity.

Pumpkin Patch

Today was a MOPS on the Move event. We went and visited a local pumpkin patch just up the road from Beaufort. It was a wonderful morning. Princess enjoyed feeding the animals and just running around in general. She picked up a pumpkin that we are going to decorate this coming weekend. Pictures will follow!

Bella feeding the "puppy". When I asked her what it was she said a puppy then quickly corrected it that it was a horse. It was cute either way.

She feed a rabbit.

She feed some goats.

Why so absent?

Its been too long since our last post. So much has happened during that time frame. My parents were out to visit and we went to Orlando with them. What a wonderful trip and time spent with GeeGee and Gamps. We spent the time at a wonderful resort and we also went to SeaWorld. We really just kind hung out but it was a wonderful Mom-cation. My parents have been such a wonderful support all of my life and continue to be with my children. I am truly blessed.

We have been a little stressed over the course of the last 2 months after we attended Paul's well baby visit and the alarm was sounded that he is in the 2nd percentile for height and weight. (The Dr was not our normal Dr) They told me to start pushing solids and just stuff the poor boy. That would have been all fine and dandy if he was ready for it. We had an appointment 2 weeks later. The growth was not what they wanted to see. So we were scheduled to come back in another 2 weeks. Well that was a Monday and then that following Sunday he caught a nasty stomach empting bug that percisted all day Sunday and continued into Monday. We called and got an appointment at his normal peditrician. Since they were so concerned with his weight and possible onset of dehydration they wanted to admit him but the only place that can run the tests was either Savannah or Charleston. Each one is about an hour and a half from the house. We knew we would be there at least over night so I called a friend to take Bella. She is actually my lifesaver as I am very particular about who watches my babies. I was completly comfortable with her watching her my only problem is I missed her too much. We arrived at MUSC Childrens Hospital in Charleston about 2 in the afternoon. We then spent the next 4 days there having test run which have all returned normal or negative. He was diagnosied as Failure to Thrive. What does that mean? Well to my baby it just means that he fell off the growth chart. They have no reasons to explain the fall but he has been gaining weight just not fast enough to maintain his position on the chart. He is hitting all of his milestones developmentally speaking but is just small. We have had 2 appointments in the last 2 weeks since being home with each one not returning the weight gain they want to see. He is eating solids now like a champ but will not take a bottle or sippy cup with the fortified formula. We are still trying but he only wants mommy. We are on a two weeks until our next appointment and they want to see a gain of 10 oz. We are hoping to make it at least close to that. If not we may be back up to MUSC. I will try and keep everybody more up to date.